Rev. Johnny Riley, Jr. is a recipient of the U.S. President of the United of America’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the Chairman of the Board of Bridging the GAPS of the United States of America (www.btgofusa.org) an international non-profit focused on leadership development and the President of Bridging the GAPS of Arkansas (www.btgarkansas.org) focused on youth leadership development and prevention, and community development. He is a principle of J Riley Consulting Group LLC (www.JRCG.US), a multinational consulting firm focused on leadership, business and community development and marketplace ministry to foster community self-sufficiency. He is the author of four books. Johnny Riley is the former Chief Executive Office of a local Housing Authority. He worked with State Farm Insurance Companies for over 14 years, where he served as a part of the project team to develop the current State Farm Bank, one of the United States of America’s largest virtual banks. And he was also the Director of the Office of Workforce Development for the State of Louisiana Workforce Commission (Department of Labor). He managed an annual budget of $150 million dollars. He was instrumental in providing the labor force during the BP Oil Spill cleanup efforts, the largest man-made disaster in the history of the United States of America. He speaks in conferences annually all over the world (Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Australia). He has spoken to over 100,000 individuals about community -based business developing in the United States and several foreign countries. Recently because of COVID-19 he has spoken at several leadership conferences in the United States and India about how to engage the entire community in the mist of this current pandemic.